Noun

(es)

(archaic)

*{{quote-book, year=1919, author=J. B. Salmond, title=My Man Sandy, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I canna be bathered wi' the chatterin', fykie, kyowowin' little wratch . }}

*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Barnes, title=Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Noo soul to sheaere The trials the poor wratch must bear. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Ian Maclaren, title=Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He said he wes up for a walk an' juist dropped in, the wratch .' }}

*{{quote-book, year=1868, author=Alexander Hislop, title=The Proverbs of Scotland, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Little Andrew, the wratch , has been makin' a totum wi' his faither's ae razor; an' the pair man's trying to shave himsel yonder, an' girnan like a sheep's head on the tangs." }}

*{{quote-book, year=1855, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Westward Ho!, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Why, he's a praste, a Popish praste, that can't marry if he would, poor wratch ." }}

Noun

(es)

An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.

*{{quote-book

, year=1742 , author=Henry Fielding , title=Joseph Andrews , chapter=12 citation , passage=The poor wretch , who lay motionless a long time, just began to recover his senses as a stage-coach came by.}}

*{{quote-book

, year=1789 , author=Watkin Tench , title=The Expedition to Botany Bay , chapter=14 citation , passage=The four unhappy wretches labouring under sentence of banishment were freed from their fetters, to rejoin their former society; and three days given as holidays to every convict in the colony.}}

An unpleasant, annoying person.

*{{quote-book

, year=1740 , author=Samuel Richardson , title=Pamela , chapter=71 citation , passage=Swear to me but, thou bold wretch ! said she, swear to me, that Pamela Andrews is really and truly thy lawful wife, without sham, without deceit, without double-meaning; and I know what I have to say!}}

*{{quote-book

, year=1823 , author=Walter Scott , title=Saint Ronan's Well , chapter=32 citation , passage=I asked that selfish wretch , Winterblossom, to walk down with me to view her distress, and the heartless beast told me he was afraid of infection!}}

(archaic) An exile. (rfex)